School of Dance Forum: Claudia La Rocco

Claudia La Rocco joins us in partnership with MANCC Visiting Artists, Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener on March 21st at 10:30am for the School of Dance weekly forum!

La Rocco is the author of The Best Most Useless Dress (Badlands Unlimited), selected poetry, performance texts, images and criticism, and the novel petit cadeau, published by The Chocolate Factory Theater as a print edition of one and an interdisciplinary live edition. She edited I Donʼt Poem: An Anthology of Painters (Off the Park Press) and Dancers, Buildings and People in the Streets, the catalogue for Danspace Project’s PLATFORM 2015, which she curated. July, the debut album from animals & giraffes, her duo with musician/composer Phillip Greenlief, has just been released by Edgetone Records. She is an Artforum contributor, was a critic and reporter for The New York Times for many years, and is now editor-in-chief of SFMOMA’s arts and culture platform Open Space. She is currently an artist in residence at On the Boards, part of a three-year Doris Duke grant to create context around contemporary performance.